Posted in Uncategorized on July 22nd, 2009 3 Comments »
Turns out that if someone compromises a merchant that you shop with, such as bikenashbar.com, then they are entitled to your money as long as they can show to the bank that they have your billing/shipping information. According to Chase it’s not fraud if they steal your address along with the card number. I recommend [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
When it comes to taking on crazy tasks involving disguising code, you can always count on Joshua. This time Joshua has gone deep in Pork territory to do a very impressive rewrite (one that would not be even close to possible with anything other than Elsa-based tools) and he is blogging about it. He posted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14th, 2009 4 Comments »
With much pain I managed to convince a Vmware WinXP virtual machine to run in VirtualBox. At first it ran very sluggishly(>3 hours to do a build?), but after I turned off IO Apic stuff in Windows, it’s become disturbingly fast. It now takes 40minutes to build a wince fennec vs almost 80minutes it took [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
Python GDB Rocks! I wanted a non-painful way to figure out what’s causing bonus file IO. I’ve noticed that gtk likes to open files, but I didn’t have the exact details. So I grabbed python gdb, and with some tips on syscalls from gdb old-timers managed to produce a report to assign blame for open()ing [...]
